Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-09
RAILROAD BOND PETITION.

To the Honorable Board of County Com
TlliSsioners of the County of Barber, an
the State Of Kansas:
The undersigned, being more than two-fifths
of the resident Taxpayers of Lake City town
ship, OF the county of Barber, in the state OF
to submit to the qualified electors of said town.
ship, proposition to subscribe Twenty-Five
Thousand Dollars to the capital stock of the
Kansas and Panhandle Railroad Company, q
corporation created and existing under and by
virtue of the laws of the state of Kansas, which
proposes to construct a line of railroad into
and through said township, and that in pay
ment for said subscription of said stock, bonds
OF suid township shall be issued in sums of
One Thousand Dollars each. payable I'm Thirty
Years from date of issue, with interest pays
bic semfannually, at the rate OF per cent. per
annunl, on the first day of January and the
first day of July, of each and every year, until
said principal shall become due; and said
bonds shall have attached thereto, semi an
nual interest coupons; and the said bonds
(bOth principal and interest.) sjell be payable
At the fiscal agency % the state of Kansas. I'm
the city OF New York, in the state of New
York.
And the conditions on which said subscrip-
ton TO the capital stock shall be made, are,
that the said Railroad Company shall construct
and operate and maintain said railroad of a
standard gauge, from some point ON the nol tn
or east side of said township, and running
thence through said township, and have the
same in operation on or before the 3lst day of
December, A. d., 1887; and erect and maintain
depots and stations in said township, as Rol-
lows, to-wit: Within One-half ca mile of the
crossing of Main and Seminary streets, in the
town of Lake City.
And we further pray that you order a Special
Election, to he held in said township. in 'pur-
suance OF chapter lO7 of the laws of 1876. and
the acts of the legislature of the state of Kan
sas amendatory thereof, to vote upon the
question OF subscribing for said stock, as
aforesaid. And the form of the ballots to be
used at such election, and fer such PROPOSE
ton be:
O.rH a. ..R. u
and Panhandle Railroad Company"
And those against such proposition to be:
Against subscription to Stock of the Kansas
and Panhandle Railroad COMPANY"
And whereas said Board of County Commits
sioners haveexamined said petition and IL hav-
ing been shown To the satisfaction of said
Board that the said petition has heen signed 10y
more than twO-fifths of the resident tax-pay.
ers I'm said township, and is I'm the form pre-
scr1oed by law and is in all respects regular and
legal, ana said Board so finds and declares;
Now, therefore, pursuant to the prayer of said
petition, and the statutes in such case made
and provided, II is hereby ordered by the Board
OF County Commissioners of said county, that
| Special Election be held at the usual Voting
places in said Township. on
| WEDNESDAY, TIE I'D DAY OF FEBRUARY
A. D., 1887, at which said Election the
| proposition set forth In the hereinbefort
| rccited petition, which petition with the
signatures thereto omitted, is hereby made
! part of this order. shall be submitted TO thC
| legally qualified voters of said township for
| their decision by ballot. ~
And it Is further ordered. by said Board OF
county commissioners, that the Sheriff of said
county make due proclamation to the voters OF
said township of the holding of said Election
al the time and places aforesaid. by publishing
the same Tor thirty DAYS or more next pre-
ceding the day of holding said Election. in
some newspaper published IN said county, AM
having general circulation i'm said township
anu mat IN said proclamation said Sheriff SET
forth the above and foregoing order and recitt
said petition therein.
In witness whereof. we the undersigned
chairman and members of the Board of TOun
| ty Commissioners, of the County of Rtrher
state OF Kansas, have hereunto set our hands
as chairman and members aforesaid, at tht
IIou ,, scar OF SAID County, this 18th day Of
W. w. Cook, Chairman,
JOHN MCGRArH, Commissioner
| j. ID. FLEMING, Commissioner
AS attest, my signature and Seal Of sait
Barber County, hereto affixed this 18th day
Of January, A. ID. 1887. -'" U'''
lsEALl ROBERT J. TALrAFERRo.
county Clerk OF Barber, County State OF
| Kansas. S Vi
Now therefore, /, Charles d. Nelson. Sheriff
vi - baIoeS county, Kansas. under and 10y vir
! LURE OF Ine foregoing order of the Board n,
county commissioners of said County and tn.
suthhorlty In me vested by law as such Sheriff
IN. ner ,S, proclaim and make known, thai
tnere VIII be held Special Election of ths
YuaIlned voters Of Lake City Township. in ssif
TTounty, at the usual voting places In said
rSsrn on , Wednesday the ed day Of Feb
Iorth In the said order of said Board of County
commissioners of said County of Barber. Kan
sas, and IN the manner and form set forth. ant
Inat sald Election will be held, the returns
maoe ana the result ascertained i'm the eame
| tons. 80 "a DAoS
Done at my Office IN the City of Medicine
Lo1ge. IN SAID County Of Barber, this 18th day
OF January, A. ID. 1857. 49, ~''
CHARLES, ID. NELSON.
BY WM. LINDSEY, -N'-'
Under Sheriff.